JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The Angolan government reported Friday that rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who has led a struggle for power in that country for almost 30 years, was killed during fighting ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The death of Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who helped drag out one of Africa’s longest-running civil wars, has rekindled hopes for peace in a country ravaged by ...

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Former leader of Angola's rebel UNITA movement Jonas Savimbi will be reinterred Saturday, 17 years after he was killed in a shootout with government soldiers that spelt the end to the country's long ...

LUANDA, Angola (AP) – Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel group that has fought the government and frustrated peace efforts for nearly three decades, was killed Friday in a military attack on UNITA ...

The exhumed body of Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi, who was killed in 2002, will be reburied in his hometown next month, authorities said after DNA tests confirmed the identity of the remains. The ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 22 -- A senior Angolan official said that government troops today ambushed and killed rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, whose 27-year battle for control of the southern African nation ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 23 -- In a sidewalk cafe in the Angolan capital, Luanda, businessman Victor Baio sat with an espresso and a cell phone today, watching as passing cars honked and shirtless young men ...

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The death in a gun battle last week of Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi has fueled hopes throughout Africa that the continent's longest-running war might end soon. But analysts warn that a quick ...